Family tree familie In den Bosch » Gerardus Johannes "Gerardus" de Visser (1902-)

Birthday October 28, 1902

• The temperature on October 28, 1902 was between 0.3 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (84%). Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
  • May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
  • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
  • October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
  • November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
  • December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1902 » Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress and singer († 1986)
• 1903 » Evelyn Waugh, English journalist, author, and critic († 1966)
• 1903 » John Chamberlain, American historian, journalist, and critic († 1995)
• 1904 » George Dangerfield, English-American historian, journalist, and author († 1986)
• 1905 » Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician († 1984)